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• The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

  Charles Bent

  Prayer, Real, Desire

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• Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Letting Go, Art, Events

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• Being joyful is our natural state of being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Natural, States

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

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• The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Light, Plant, Transport

  Friedrich Schiller (1872). “The Works of Frederick Schiller”, p.469

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• The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

  Caryll Houselander

  God, Jesus, Christian Inspirational

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• Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Pain, Empathy, Feelings

  "Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving?" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Happiness, Contentment, Should

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1920-1931”, New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press

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• I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Childhood, Gone

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  Daniel Boone

  Spring, Blessing, Hands

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sad, Gratitude, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI (2007). “John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor”

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• To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Children, Home

  Pope John Paul II, Tony Castle (1987). “The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

  Joseph Addison

  Anniversary, Two, Perfection

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583

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• Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.

  Russell T Davies

  Sexy, Jobs, Writing

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• Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Pain, Positivity

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.37, New World Library

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• Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

  Andrew Jackson

  Promise, Scripture, Trouble

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• Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.

  Dogen

  Mind, Soup, Grass

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• Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Poetry, Poet

  William Ellery Channing (1843). “Poems”

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• Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, its joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life.

  Lacey Mosley

  Jesus, Giving, Healthy

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• I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.

  Frida Kahlo

  Return, Exit, Departure

  Elena Poniatowska, Frida Kahlo, Carla Stellweg (1992). “Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced”, Vintage

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• Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Light, Healthy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.157

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• The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Encouragement, Gratitude, Religious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1872). “The treasury of David: containing an original exposition of the Book of psalms”, p.81

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• Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we'll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life.

  Richard Bach

  Two, Adventurous, Words Love

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one feel devout. The courteous gesture increases one's respect for others. To act lovingly is to begin to feel loving, and certainly to act joyfully brings joy to others which in turn makes one feel joyful. I believe we are called to the duty of delight.

  Dorothy Day

  Kindness, Believe, Joy

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• The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Martin Luther (1830). “A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.402

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• Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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